Pet peeves: The return (Part 2)

Argent Dawn
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I only just installed g-shade when Endwalker released and it makes a huge difference.

Doman refugees: I sleep

Ala Mhigan refugees: Real :poop:

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You went through all that without gshade? Oh you poor thing!

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I mean it wasn’t terrible. The game looks a bit washed out but it was fine overall.

I do wish I’d known about gshade earlier though.

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Got my Warped Sword.

Wondering whether to go Spider Silk in my offhand instead of Spider Fang, apparently that gives Warped Sword some range when duel wielding and keeps the curved sword moveset (I hate the rapier moveset)

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Ul’dah.

Home.

Spoiler At least it was until Alphinaud f/ed everythang up.
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ARR ending spoilers

If you go back there after the ARR ending, they will talk about how they don’t really dare stop you from walking around in there, because you have popular support and the other city-states pressured the monetarists into keeping the banquet’s events quiet.

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Spoilers I'm on the last leg of Heavensward and I kind of hate that they pulled the "ah she was just sleeping" thing. When she fell back dead and the whole conspiracy finally unfolded I was probably more invested an immersed in the story than I've ever been in an MMO. Now everything's just sort of neatly back to normal and while that's nice I wish there would have been a bit more oomph to it.
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Yes thank you! Finally someone who agrees with me.

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You’re not wrong, but I am still glad it ended the way it did, because if it hadn’t it would have caused long-term issues with the plot there.

I won’t say anything more since you’re relatively early in the story still though.

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I made the right choice by going for Spider Silk instead of Spider Fang.

Now I need Petrified dragon Bone

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i agree with you too! It felt like a copout, as if they were trying to hastily wrap up that arc after piquing the players’ curiosity and getting them to buy HW.

I feel you. For me it’s the Limsa day theme, since that was the first thing I heard after stepping off that ship into a new and unknown world. Even now, running past Limsa landmarks, I reminisce about those
 simpler times of early ARR when the story was feeling like a perfectly serviceable, if a bit unoriginal, D&D pastiche.

Except for a few clunky parts that didn’t age well, ARR is fine. It only looks dull in hindsight compared to the expansions, which have raised the bar really high — not to new players looking at the game with fresh eyes and not knowing what to expect. I’m writing this fresh off the Shadowbringers reveal that

Out of context ShB spoiler

Soylent Green is people.

How far we’ve come. And what a wild and cathartic journey it has been — and is yet going to be.

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I weep for Orgrimmar.

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It’s one of my big criticisms of 14’s story for sure - not that character specifically, but in general.

Once it happens once you see it all the time

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Also bare in mind that this storyline was written at the height of popularity of the Game of Thrones TV series. It is completely probable THE infamous scene in season 3 inspired this whole arc.

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So, I guess they did not change at all then huh? Shame.

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What is the infamous scene? I can recite a lot of the show without seeing it since there was a time where GoT was as inescapable as death and taxes, but I don’t know where one season ends and another begins.

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Spoilers for Stormblood and MSQ in general when it comes to Ul'dah

Had she stayed dead, Ul’dah would be kinda dead in the water in terms of story development. Raubahn on his own is not enough to be a driving force for change, not that he is much of a statesman anyway, and with no one else to take over the throne you’d just get more monetarists
 forever.

The plotline of Nanamo maturing and taking on a new, more educated form of leadership is one that I think was worth having the bloody banquet’s aftermath kinda fizzle out.

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Spoilers just in case

The Red Wedding in GoT appears to have directly inspired the Bloody Banquet in FFXIV

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If you didn’t know, rats love prawn crackers.

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SB spoilers

Not to mention that it’s Nanamo maturing and taking initiative that allows Raubahn to finally move on from overprotective loyalty to her and return to Ala Mhigo, where he’s needed the most. For a thoroughly idealistic game, it’s a rather unusual case of a realpolitik deal with a sleazebag having mostly positive long-term consequences for the major players — including the Scions, as the Kugane arc proves.